Word: meret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...researches in books that surpassed in popularity the works of Anatole France, Pierre Loti. He founded the French Astronomical Society, edited a monthly review, L'Astronomie. In the War of 1870, he served France, spying upon the Prussian troops with his long telescope. An admirer, one M. Meret, presented him with a country place at Juvisy, where he built an observatory, passed his time peering at the planet Mars and collecting ghost stories. Never a great scientist, he was still mumbling about the probable inhabitability of Mars while his colleagues were concerned with the atomic structures of stars...
...Heavens, The Atmosphere, Urania, Omega, The Last Days of the World, Astronomy for Amateurs. For 58 years, he has never taken a penny of author's right for his work, Annuaire Astronomique, published annually. Out of sheer admiration for his selfless devotion to his studies, one M. Meret provided him with a country estate, "La Cour de France," upon which M. Flammarion erected the Observatory of Juvisy, and where he to this day is fascinated by the study of the planets- in particular Mars...
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